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73, 329-330, 354, 382

"human-wave" tactics, 77

Humbert, Lt. Philip, 379

Hunersdorff, Col., 231, 240, 266

Hungarian Army, xiv, 8, 13, 14, 346

Hurricane aircraft, 88

ice packs, effect on battle, 151, 159,

160, 162, 168, 220, 243

Idar-Oberstein, 399

Ilyin, Col. Pyotr, 45-46, 75-76

industrial revolution, 29

infantry: German, 13, 89, 90, 138, 148,

253, 274, 322, 354; Russian, 4, 34,

77, 82.
See also entries under
German

Army

Infantry Assault Badge, 130

intelligence, military: German, 8-9, 17,

20, 42, 114, 127, 147-148, 149, 150,

175, 182, 246, 292, 422; Russian,

74, 97, 132-133, 150-151, 158,

170-171, 422-423

Iron Cross, Knighthood of, 7, 13

Isonzo River, 15

Israel, xiii, 397, 398

Italian Army, xiv, 13, 150, 229, 232,

233, 245, 247, 275; Alpini, 14, 15,

391; Bersaglieri, 14, 262-264;

Eighth, 14, 258, 259, 269, 275,

300, 304; Julia, 14; Torino, 14, 16;

troops taken prisoner, 397

Ivan the Terrible, 22

Jaenecke, Gen. Erwin, 134, 354

Japan, 70, 217

Jeschonnek, Albert, 132, 154, 193, 199,

206, 217, 245

Jews, extermination of, 11-12, 15.
See

also
anti-Semitism

Jodi, Gen. Albert, 79, 110, 232, 344

Ju-52 aircraft, 118, 216, 221, 229, 280,

355, 358

Ju-88 aircraft, 58, 60, 91

Kalach, 32, 46, 88, 175, 191, 194, 249,

254, 347; bridge at, 40, 45, 75-76,

114, 190, 192, 193, 195-196, 197-

198, 202; German garrison at, 195

Kalmikoff, 262, 263, 264, 275, 328

Kalmucks, 42, 114

Kamenka, 254

Kamyshin, 104

Karinhall estate, 206

Karl Marx Gardens, 60-61

Karlsruhe, 403

Karmanov, Genn, 58, 97-98, 386

Karmanova, Katrina, 58-59, 97-98, 385-

386

Karpovka, 286, 309, 338, 387

Karpovka River, 334

Karpovka Valley, 332, 333

Kasternoye, 346

Kastle, Lt. Hermann, 185, 322, 405

Kazakhs, attack on Red Army troops,

321

Kazakhstan, 3, 69, 120

Keitel, Field Marshal Wilhelm, 9, 345,

381, 399

"Kessel, Der
(The Cauldron)," 203,

204,

297,

212-255

303, 306,

passim,

308, 330,

292,

332,

296,

335

Khalkin Gol, 70, 217

Kharkov, 113, 164, 167, 436; German

victory at, 12, 13, 68; refugees

from, 34

Khoyzyanov, Lt. Andrei, 101, 102

Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeeyvich, 231,

399, 400, 404, 437; orders given

by, 82; rivalry with Malenkov, 68;

and Stalin, 80-81; visit to battlefield,

172; and Yeremenko, 48, 54-

55, 61, 83, 85,

Kiev, 55, 387, 402,

Kirchner Gen., 274,

Kletskaya, 14, 147,

179, 181, 184,

172,

404,

278

149,

188,

302

436

159,

201,

161,

214

167,

Kliagin, Vovo, 54, 60, 61

Kliagina, Nadia, 54, 60, 61

Kliagina, Vlasa, 54, 60-61

Klotz, Lt. Heinrich, 130-131, 319-320,

405

Kohler, Dr. Ottmar, 50-51, 63-65, 131,

227, 318-319, 370, 399, 405

Kolia (Russian child spy), 91-92

Komsomol, 66

Komsomolskaya Street, 61; battle for,

103, 109

Konings, Maj., 121, 127-130

Korfes, Gen. Otto, 366, 371, 379

Kornilov, Natasha, 98-99, 170, 317

Korshunov, Gen., 55

Kosygin, Alexei, 404

Kotelnikovo, 26, 213, 216, 229, 231;

German capture of, 21, 33; recaptured

by Russians, 320

Kotluban, 388

Kovalova, Olga, 69

Krasnaya Sloboda, 99, 307

Krasnoarmeysk, 79

Krasnodar, 44

Krasnofimsk, 103

Krasnopeterskaya Street, 103, 108

Krasny Zastava factory, 59

Kreiser, Lt. Wilhelm, 140-141, 209-

210, 235, 399, 405

Krinovaya prison camp, 391, 392

Krugliakov, 33

Krupennikov, Maj. Gen. I. P., 264-266

Krupennikov, Yuri, 265

Krutoy Gully, 34, 36, 119, 120

Krylov, Gen. N. I., 87, 126, 316, 379,

399-400

Kuibyshev 104, 124, 234

Kulikov, Nikolai, 128, 129-130

Kunowski, Col. von, 298

Kuperosnoye, 79, 80

Kuzmichi, 63

Kwantung Army, 70, 217

labor camps, 165

Langkeit, Oberleutnant, 353

Lascar, Gen. Mihail, 201

Latashanka, 104, 171

Lazur Chemical Plant, 36, 104, 120,

121, 175

Leipzig, 199

Lelyushenko, Gen., 265

Lenin, V. J., 22

Leningrad, 18, 20, 29, 34, 70-72

Leyser, Gen. Ernst, 191, 343

Libya, 15

lice, 171, 188, 287, 304, 309, 312, 349,

364, 371

Likovitsa, 398

Linden, Maj. Joseph, 46, 155, 242, 303,

405

List, Field Marshal Sigmund Wilhelm,

8, 78

Little Saturn offensive, 228, 301

livestock, 32, 116, 186, 189, 190, 318;

kept as pets, 49, 51, 318.
See also

horses

Loebbecke, Lt. Eberhard von, 193-194,

405

London, Jack, 35

Lopatin, Gen. A. I., 81, 82-83

Lubeck, 402

"Lucy" (Rudolph Rossler), 23, 24, 158,

228, 402, 422

Ludwig, Col. Gunter, 375-376

Luftwaffe, 33, 91, 183, 238; airfields,

47; drops by, 65, 222; losses at

Stalingrad, 302-303, 339, 434; officers,

xiii, 61, 148, 154, 206, 229,

347; Paulus and, 131-132, 148-

149, 154, 163, 222, 229-230, 237,

254, 350-351; plea for intervention

rejected by, 349.
See also
airlift;

air raids

Lugansk, 3

Lutschinski, 221

Lyudnikov, Col. Ivan Ilyich, 150, 157,

159-160, 162, 186, 284, 400

Maginot Line, 215

Magnitogorsk, 121

Maikop, 78

Malaya Ivanovka, 77

Malaya Rossoshka, 54

Malenkov, Georgi, x, 68

Malinovsky, Gen. Rodion Yakolevich,

336-337, 400

Malygin, Maj., 168-169

Mamaev Hill, xii, 36, 37-38, 60, 68,

128, 133, 168, 169, 175, 325, 368;

battle for, 93, 94, 101, 104, 109,

111, 120, 123, 137, 396; command

post on, 86-87, 88; German positions

on, 125, 227, 348, 378-379

Manchuria, 70, 217

Manstein, Field Marshal Erich von,

215, 400; as head of Army Group

Don, 211-214, 228, 229, 230, 231,

242, 245-246, 290, 329-330, 347;

Hitler and, 20, 246, 250-251, 272-

273, 274, 298, 310, 320, 362, 400;

Paulus and, 233, 242, 248-250,

277-279, 298, 300; resignation of-

fered, 320; retreat ordered by, 346.

See also
German Army (Army

Group Don); Operation Thunderclap

manufacturing, 36-37

marines, Russian, 68, 101, 102, 123

Marinovka, 286, 334

Marsan, Lt. Veniero, 15

Martini (Italian prisoner), 327

Medevitskaya Street, 58

medical care: German, 6, 50, 131, 229,

313, 317, 325, 349, 365; Russian,

84, 110

medical supplies, 198, 229, 282, 370

Mediterranean Sea, 153

Medvedev, Viktor, 145

Meshkov, 263, 275

Messerschmidt aircraft, 346

Metzger, Lt. Emil, 7-8, 116-117, 167,

203, 228, 289-290, 347, 387, 389,

393-395, 400, 405

Metzger, Kaethe, 7-8, 116, 228, 289-

290, 347, 389, 393-395, 400

Metzler, Pvt. Josef, 114, 208, 352, 405

Meunch, Capt. Gerhard, 46, 76, 89,

92-93, 113, 167, 243, 286-287,

324, 354-355, 400-401, 405

Mexico, 22

mice, 304; equipment damaged by, 159;

used as food by troops, 238

Mikosch, Col., 195

Milch, Gen. Erhard, 347

military decorations, 353, 397-398.
See

also
German Cross; Hero of the

Soviet Union; Infantry Assault

Badge; Iron Cross; Order of

Lenin; Order of the Red Star; Ritter

ICreuz

militia, workers', 56-57, 63; organized

for defense of Stalingrad, 90; replaced

by regulars, 112

Millerovo, 263

minefields, deactivation of, 242

Mishkova River, 213, 232, 234, 237,

241, 243, 247, 250, 255, 257, 258,

273, 274, 275, 279, 290, 294, 300

Moabit Prison, 399

Modina, Anastasia, 66-67, 97

Mogilev, 42

Mokraya Mechetka River, 37, 56, 63,

68, 69

Mongols, 28-29, 115

Montgomery, Gen. Bernard, 153

morale, problems of: German, 112,

167, 185, 226, 297, 311-313, 340,

356; Russian, 42, 48, 71-72, 82

Moro airstrip, 302

Morocco, Allied landings in, 153

Morosovsk, 274

Morosovskaya, 67, 216, 274, 291

mortars: German, 6-7, 73, 80, 102,

105, 127, 203, 242; Russian, 120,

370-371

Moscow, xv, 18, 22, 29, 48n, 70, 149,

183; defense of, 71, 103

Moslems, 78

Mues, Capt., 172-173

Muller (Chief of Staff, 14th Corps).

369

Munich, 152, 153, 401

Mussolini, Benito, 14, 15, 305

mutiny, 244, 366, 369-370

Mutius, Lt., 221

nail factory, defense of, 100, 102

Napoleon Bonaparte, ix-x

Narvik, 295

Nazi party, 9, 153, 374, 401; fund-raising

drive, 244; German opponents

of, 402, 403

Nazi-Soviet pact, 23

nebelwerfers
(German mortars), 6-7,

203

Neidhardt, Capt. Boris von, 372, 377

Neist, Heinz, 139-140, 208, 238-239,

359, 380-381, 405

Neiwig, Cpl., 387-388

Nekrassov, Lt. Viktor, 55-56

Nerozia, Pyotr, 56-57, 59

Neustadt, 339

New Year's Eve, battlefield celebration

of, 307-308

New York Times,
336

NKVD, 43, 67, 82, 90, 105, 117, 307,

399; prison, 66, 365-366, 369,

374, 375, 380; in street fighting,

91, 92

Normandy, occupation of, 13

North Africa, Allied invasion of, 48n,

154, 182, 232, 296

Novocherkassk, 212, 214, 228, 245,

248, 250, 273, 294, 310, 329, 339

Novosibirsk, 397

Odessa, 34

Oettl, Lt. Hans, 49-50, 51, 112, 23,

209, 308-309, 318, 383-384, 401,

405

oil fields, and German strategy, 18, 85,

118, 119

Operation Blue (German), 4, 8, 12,

18, 78, 422; details known to

Stalin, 24

Operation Thunderclap (German),

246, 247, 253, 255, 257, 260, 267,

270, 271, 274, 277-278, 290, 400

Operation Torch (Allied), 48n

Operation Uranus (Soviet), 117, 162,

171, 172, 176, 183-184, 186-187

Operation Winter Storm (German),

228, 231, 233, 246, 247, 254, 255,

260, 268, 270

Oranki Prison, 363, 390

Order of Lenin, 145

Order of the Red Star, 169

Orlovka, 130, 131, 286

Ostarhild, Lt. Karl, 147, 148, 149, 150,

405

Ostrov, 39, 40

Pamir Mountains, 389

Panzer Army, First,
see
Hoth, Hermann;

also entry under
German

Army

Parker, Ralph, 336

partisans, Russian; 106, 164

Paulus, Alexander von, 9, 401

Paulus, Elena Constance Rosetti-Solescu

von, 9-10, 230, 247, 401

Paulus, Ernst von, xi, 9, 18, 20, 401,

405

Paulus, Gen. Friedrich von, x, xi, 12,

73, 74, 114, 336, 366, 396, 400-

401, 402; actions as commander of

Sixth Army, 9-13, 41, 52, 78, 172,

175, 182, 190, 330, 331; disaster

foreshadowed, 65, 147-148, 175;

failure to link with Fourth Panzer

Army, 75, 76; and Halder, 111;

and High Command, 210-211; and

Hitler, 85, 192-193, 203, 204, 208,

246, 271-272, 274, 308, 340, 374,

376-377; and mutinous generals,

369-370; orders given and rescinded,

269, 270; pleas for assistance,

111-112, 132, 294; proclamation

to troops, 198; retreat recommended

by, 191-192, 197, 200,

211; tactics, 62, 130, 150-151;

treatment of by Russians, 388; ultimatum

received by, 325.
See also

Luftwaffe; Manstein; Sixth Army

Pavlov, Sgt. Jacob, 119-120, 137, 146,

401

Pavlovsk, 346

Pearl Harbor, bombing of, ix

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